Donald Trump cannot take criticism, especially from his own state-run propaganda network, Fox News aka Trump TV. Several times this year he has gone on a Twitter tirade about the reporters in the “news” division of Fox News for reporting the news fairly accurately — respect Shep Smith! — and complaining that they should be more … Read more
Our crypto-fascist racist Twitter-troll-in-chief held another Nuremberg-style campaign rally in North Carolina Wednesday night for his MAGA personality cult followers. Trump again used “the squad” of four Democratic women of color in Congress as his foil to rile up the white grievances of his mostly white nationalist base. Trump, and Republicans in general, are now … Read more
Above Photo: Vice President Mike Pence, along with Republican Senators John Cornyn (TX), Lindsey Graham (SC), Marsha Blackburn (TN), and (partially hidden in back) Mike Lee (UT) at the migrant detention center in McAllen, TX. Most reporters have been using the pool report from the Washington Post, so let’s use this as a starting point … Read more
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is scheduled to testify publicly before Congress on July 17. Republicans in Congress want to distract the public by focusing their attacks on “investigating the investigators” who investigated the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia-linked operatives — not the Russian interference in the 2016 campaign. (As long as it inures to their … Read more
The Trump campaign, and the Republican Party writ large, have fully embraced the Russian dezinformatsiya tactics that they learned from them in the 2016 campaign. Some would call it “gaslighting” the American public, and others would call it Orwellian “double-speak” from 1984. This was on full display yesterday when Donald Trump actually tried to claim that … Read more